Littler Hitlers
Cabinet secretary Damian Green appealed to commentators to halt the ‘ridiculous rise of routine comparisons to Hitler’. A small selection of examples in the past week:
— Chants of ‘Go home, Nazis’ met a white supremacist rally in Florida, where at least one attendee was in a swastika T-shirt.
— Ex-US vice president Joe Biden asked universities to respect free speech, saying ‘don’t give the Trumps of this world the ability to compare you with Nazis’.
— An ultra-orthodox Jew protesting against military service called Israeli police ‘Nazis’.
— Ex-National Front and BNP campaigner Kevin Wilshaw said he had ‘completely wasted’ his past life as a ‘Nazi’.
Race winners
Oxford University was criticised because one in three colleges had not admitted any black Britons. How many applied and were accepted from various ethnicities in 2016?
| Ethnicity | Applications |
| White | 26,200 |
| Mixed white/Asian | 1,090 |
| Mixed white/black African | 189 |
| Mixed white/black Caribbean | 225 |
| Chinese | 691 |
| Black/black British: Caribbean | 124 |
| Arab | 166 |
| Black/black British: African | 702 |
| Refused to give ethnicity | 493 |
| Ethnicity | Accepted |
| White | 25% |
| Mixed white/Asian | 25% |
| Mixed white/black African | 24% |
| Mixed white/black Caribbean | 20% |
| Chinese | 18% |
| Black/black British: Caribbean | 15% |
| Arab | 13% |
| Black/black British: African | 11% |
| Refused to give ethnicity | 27% |
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